Comment on “Tracking the global footprint of fisheries”
Amoroso, R.O.; Parma, A.M.; Pitcher, C.R.; McConnaughey, R.A.; Jennings, S. (2018). Comment on “Tracking the global footprint of fisheries”. Science (Wash.) 361(6404): eaat6713. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aat6713
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, more
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- Amoroso, R.O.
- Parma, A.M.
- Pitcher, C.R.
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- McConnaughey, R.A.
- Jennings, S.
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Abstract |
Kroodsma et al. (Reports, 23 February 2018, p. 904) mapped the global footprint of fisheries. Their estimates of footprint and resulting contrasts between the scale of fishing and agriculture are an artifact of the spatial scale of analysis. Reanalyses of their global (all vessels) and regional (trawling) data at higher resolution reduced footprint estimates by factors of >10 and >5, respectively. |
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